Hot start. But who really expects this to last? I mean, yeah, good for them. They’ve taken advantage of some so-called “good teams” that are not playing well when they’ve come across the Avs so far.

MacKinnon made a mistake that you simply cannot make if you’re going to play in the NHL. If he ever does that again, he should be benched for a dozen games. Dumb, dumb, dumb. And I don’t want to hear about “Oh, he’s a rookie and he’ll learn from it.” That’s an unforgivable sin in the NHL.

JYK

It’s a given that this won’t last. The Avs aren’t a playoff team even though they might look like one right now. They’re 3 games into the season. It’s way too early to get excited. Everyone knows the Avs will start losing a lot pretty soon. Anyone that doesn’t know that doesn’t follow hockey.

Avalanche77

Rick, I’m sorry your Leafs lost tonight. Go to Bed I told you!

shaker

Every team has to start somewhere. 3 wins is 3 wins. Who cares if those teams were having an off night. No one was talking about the leafs struggling heading into the game tonight. It was “undefeated Toronto vs undefeated Colorado”. Boston and Washington will be huge tests for them but we’ll see. If they go 2-1 or even 1-1-1 that’s not terrible. As for MacKinnon the only unforgivable sin is not learning from your mistakes. I’m sure he’s going to learn from his just like every NHL player does if they intend to stick around.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.